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This is a personal description of Grzegorz Rozenberg. There is something magical in the fact that one man, Grzegorz, has been able to obtain so many and such good results in so numerous and diverse areas of science. This is why I have called him a “magical scientist.” He is also a very interdisciplinary scientist. In some sense this is due to his educational background. His first degree was in electronics engineering, the second a master’s in computer science, and the third a Ph.D. in mathematics. However, in the case of Grzegorz, the main drive for new disciplines comes from his tireless search for new challenges in basic science, rather than following known tracks. Starting with fundamental automata and language theory, he soon extended his realm to biologically motivated developmental languages, and further to concurrency, Petri nets, and graph grammars. During the past decade, his main focus has been on natural computing, a term coined by Grzegorz himself to mean either computing taking place in nature or human-designed computing inspired by nature.
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Salomaa, A. (2009). Grzegorz Rozenberg: A Magical Scientist and Brother. In: Condon, A., Harel, D., Kok, J., Salomaa, A., Winfree, E. (eds) Algorithmic Bioprocesses. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88869-7_1
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